Beat the Crowd by Fisher, Kenneth L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Fisher Investments Press Title Page Copyright Preface Chapter 1: Your Brain-Training Guide

Wall Street’s Contrarian Contradiction The Curmudgeon’s Conundrum There Is Always a But Why Most Investors Are Mostly Wrong Most of the Time The First Rule of True Contrarianism The All-Seeing Market Different, Not Opposite The Right Frame of Mind Check Your Ego

Chapter 2: For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls

Wall Street’s Useless/Useful Fascination With Calendars Professional Groupthink How the Contrarian Uses Professional Forecasts Even the Best Fall Sometimes . . . How to Beat the Street Notes

Chapter 3: Dracula and the Four Horsemen of the Media Apocalypse

The Media’s Flawed Financial Eyesight Dracula Around the Corner Looking for Growth in All the Wrong Places The Magic Indicator War—What Is It Good For? Don’t Be a Cow, Be a Contrarian Notes

Chapter 4: Not in the Next 30 Months

Baby Boomer Bomb? What About Social Security and Medicare? But What if the “Lost Generation” Stays Lost? What About Debt? But What if Debt Causes Runaway Inflation? But What if America Stops Innovating? But What About Global Warming? What About Income Inequality? What if the Dollar Loses Its Place as the World’s Reserve Currency? What the Markets Know Notes

Chapter 5: Take a Safari With Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau

How the Elephant Got Its Tusks Dumbo, Gross Margins and Other High-Flying Elephants When Good News Dresses Up as Bad News The Yield Curve Curveball When Elephants Attack A Brief History of Tragedy When Textbooks Lie It Can’t Be an Elephant If … Notes

Chapter 6: The Chapter You’ll Love to Hate

Step 1: Ditch Your Biases My Guy Is Best, Your Guy Is Worst and Other Unhelpful Opinions A Magical Elephant Named Gridlock (Not) Just a Bill Sittin’ on Capitol Hill That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen What’s Worse Than a Politician? Why the Government Already Made the Next Crisis Worse Notes

Chapter 7: Put Those Textbooks Away

Don’t Toss Your Textbooks—But Know Their Limitations! The First Commandment: P/Es Aren’t Predictive The CAPEd Crusader Is No Superhero Small Beats All? Fancy Formulas and Other Academic Kryptonite Theory Isn’t Reality If Not School, Where? Notes

Chapter 8: Throw Away This Book!

Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber and Pop Star Economists Classics Are Classic for a Reason Philosophy and Econ 101 How to Learn From the Legends Those Who Forget History . . . Classics in the Twenty-First Century Notes

Chapter 9: When Miley Cyrus Meets Ben Graham: Misadventures in Behavioral Finance

Where It All Began The Beginnings of Behavioral Finance’s Drift When Academics Met Capitalism and Marketing Behavioral Finance and Tactical Positioning Recency Bias and Sentiment How to Gain a Tactical Advantage With Behavioral Finance A Section for Stock Pickers Know When to Say When Getting Back to Self-Control Notes

Chapter 10: The Negative Myopic Media

How to Use the News What the Media Always Misses In Technology (and Capitalism) We Trust Parting Thoughts Notes

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